Clause 95

The Rules Committee may from time to time make rules for regulating the hearing and investigation of matters before or by a Disciplinary Committee: Provided that no such application or complaint shall be heard or investigated before less than three members of a Disciplinary Committee.

For the purpose of any application or complaint heard and investigated by them under this Act the Disciplinary Committee may administer oaths and the Society or the applicant or person making the complaint and the solicitor to whom the application or complaint relates and (if so instructed by the Disciplinary Committee) the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee may sue out writs of subpna ad testificandum and of duces tecum but no person shall be compelled under any such writ to produce any document which he could not be compelled to produce on the trial of an action.

The writs referred to in subsection (2) of this section shall be served and may be enforced as if they were writs issued in connection with a civil action in the High Court.

Any person giving evidence before a Disciplinary Committee shall be legally bound to tell the truth.

No fees or other charges shall be payable for any writ sued out by the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee under subsection (2) of this section.

In sections 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 182 and 228 of the Penal Code (Cap. 119) the words “public servant” shall be deemed to include a member of a Disciplinary Committee taking part in any investigation under this section, and in sections 193 and 228 of the Penal Code the words “judicial proceeding” shall be deemed to include any such investigation as aforesaid.